Finding it difficult to comprehend Harvey? Type in your address

The frame of a trailer home is all that remains after a fire in Fulton, Texas, on Saturday, August 26, 2017. Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast as a category 4 storm, damaging buildings and leaving tens of thousands without power. NICK WAGNER / AMERICAN-STATESMAN

If you don’t live in one of the areas that was hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey, it can be hard to comprehend the extent of destruction the storm caused. According to the Washington Post, the most rain Harvey dropped over a single location was an astounding 51.88 inches. The record stands at 52 inches.

So how would your home (or your work, or your friend’s home, or your mom’s home, or your favorite restaurant) fare after being doused with nearly 6 feet of rain? The Washington Post created a tool that allows you to type in an address, ZIP code or business name and see how a particular area would be affected by the amount of rain that has fallen over Texas due to the storm.

The Austin American-Statesman, for example, would be under about 8 feet of water, according to the Post’s model. Given our office’s waterfront location, this estimate makes sense.

Screenshot via the Washington Post

How would other notable Austin locations hold up against Harvey? The tool gave us these measurements:

Sixth Street: 4.1 feet of water

Texas Capitol: 1.5 feet of water

The University of Texas at Austin: 7.3 feet of water

The tool assumes that the water would be constrained to the area the circle marks off and claims to offer a “rough generalization” of “how any neighborhood might be affected.”

The Post said it hopes the tool provides “a sense of how dire the same situation might be in a context with which you might be more familiar.”